Many people experience feelings of apprehension, tension or discomfort when confronted by a math problem — a phenomenon known as math anxiety. Women tend to experience more math anxiety compared to their male peers and a new study, published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, provides evidence that this gender difference is related to anxiety when doing mental rotation. “I was interested in gender differences in math anxiety because there is a lot of research that suggests that math anxiety negatively impacts math performance and may be a factor that discourages women from enterin…